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Very Special Ed.
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An Education is set in 1960s suburban London and tells the story of a teenage girl whose life is changed when she falls in love with an older man. Adapted from a memoir, the...
Chameleon Walls and Conceptual Art
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Four walls in the Fitzgerald building have been changing colour. Outside of Gallery One One One the rotunda area was at one point blue, transforming to orange, then green. Currently, the squares of colour...
CD Review : Civet “Hell Hath No Fury”
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Is Civet the greatest female rock group since the Runaways?
No.
Their official bio calls them, “the hottest all-girl rock n' roll band (both literally and figuratively) to erupt from the Los Angeles rock scene since...
CD Review : Bad News Brown “Born to Sin”
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Now, here is an album that came so close to being something really special. This Montreal-based MC mixes his outstanding harmonica playing into familiar hip-hop beats and rhythms. Obviously, it's a combination that has...
CD Review : Grant Davidson “Tired Limbs For Ashes”
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Local fellow Grant Davidson’s album, Tired Limbs for Ashes, is a quiet affair, evoking a dusty late-summer afternoon spent reflecting on life’s highs and lows, likely on a front porch, enjoying a cigarette and...
Musical Memory : Musical injury
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Reading recent Musical Memories regarding “mosh-pit misadventures,” I was painfully reminded of a tale of shame and violence all my own. It was in late November, in the Okanagan. By the time the sun...
Oscar Wild : The calm before the shitstorm
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I lost my Oscar virginity at the age of nine. It was the year Titanic won Best Picture and swept the majority of the remaining categories. The year 2000 marked the first year that...
